Hiring: Lead Software Engineer Company: Humana Location: Louisville, KY Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 11:43:20 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, API Gateway, AWS, Agile, Azure, CI/CD, Docker, Event-Driven, GraphQL, HIPAA, IAM, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, LLM, LangChain, Medicaid, Medicare, Microservices, OAuth2, OpenAPI, OpenID Connect, OpenShift, RAG, REST, Root Cause Analysis, Spring, Spring Boot About the job Experience: •1-2 years of experience in designing APIs, GraphQL services, and microservices for AI agents, copilots, and LLM-powered applications. •10+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale enterprise environments. •3+ years of technical leadership experience. •2 years of experience in designing APIs, GraphQL services, and microservices for AI agents, copilots, and LLM-powered applications. Required Skills: •Lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise APIs, GraphQL services, REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven capabilities. •Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture discussions, design reviews, coding, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and mentoring. •Guide API design decisions across REST and GraphQL patterns, including schema design, resolver design, query optimization, federation considerations, API composition, versioning, and backward compatibility. •Drive sprint execution and delivery accountability to ensure teams meet commitments with consistent quality. •Partner with Product Owners, Architects, and business stakeholders to evaluate requirements, assess technical feasibility, and deliver scalable solutions. •Establish and promote engineering best practices for API design, GraphQL schema governance, API security, quality, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence. •Support modernization initiatives using cloud-native architecture, automation, CI/CD, DevOps practices, containers, and API gateway patterns. •Champion production readiness, incident response, root cause analysis, performance optimization, and continuous improvement. Qualifications: •Use your skills to make an impact •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field. •Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, Kafka, and distributed systems. •Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, DevOps, observability, monitoring, and SRE practices. •Strong knowledge of API design, governance, security, and enterprise integration patterns. •Solid functional working knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, IAM, Ping Identity, and ForgeRock. •Proven ability to lead teams, mentor engineers, and deliver in Agile environments. •Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. •Operational familiarity with MCP, agent skills, tool calling, and agent-to-agent communication. Compensation: •$129,300 - $177,800 / year •Competitive benefits and rewards package •This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!